Music
Matt and Kim @ In the Venue 11.01 with Oberhofer
The duo came onstage after a lengthy stage setup in a burst of energy that included digital fireworks on a giant screen behind them. From that moment, the party didn’t stop until the lights came on at the end of the night. … read more
Crushed Out @ The Garage 11.02
Crushed Out are a humble blues/surf/garage rock duo from New York, and their new album, Want To Give, pays homage to the pioneers of American Delta Blues and Rock n’ Roll. … read more
NOVA Chamber Music Series @ Libby Gardner 10.28
The NOVA series––from the board, administrators and musicians to the season ticket holders––are a bit of a family, with shared values of culture and adventure reflected in a passion for the music, which is diverse, daring, and thoughtfully programmed. Each show offers some of the startlingly new, but some of the “new” is also 100 years old and you just haven’t heard it yet. … read more
Mr. Gnome @ Bar Deluxe 10.31 with Totem & Taboo,...
Mr. Gnome are a simple guitar and drum duo from Cleveland, Ohio that have the fullest sound I’ve ever heard out of a two-piece. Their last full-length album, Madness in Miniature, released a year ago and contains some of the most high-energy songs imaginable out of two people. … read more
National Music Reviews – November 2012
New and recent releaes from Aimee Mann, Andre Williams, Boys Noize, Brother Ali, Dordeduh, Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, Midnight, Neurosis, Peace, Pig Destroyer, Tweak Bird, YOKOKIMTHURSTON and more are reviewed. … read more
Local Music Reviews – November 2012
New and recent releases from Ammon Waters, Atheist, The Awful Truth, Creature Double Feature, Curseworship, Fat Apollo & The Cellulites, Hectic Hobo, Joshua James, The Myster-E, OK Ikumi and Show Me Island are reviewed. … read more
Black Tusk Needs Your Beer
Last fall, Black Tusk broke forth from the swamps of Savannah, Ga. once again to unleash their fourth album, Set The Dial, upon the world.Black Tusk have become known for combining various aspects of aggressive music and filtering them through their Southern roots to create a style of metal as crushing as it is fun. “I don’t just listen to metal music by any means. That’s why we don’t just sound metal all the time,” says drummer James May. “We don’t hang out in graveyards or worship the devil. We just do it in a fun way.” … read more
Running Into Walls: The Return of Into Another
Back in 1994, there was no bigger band in my mind than New York City’s Into Another. When I learned that they were reuniting to play the Revelation Records anniversary shows in California this past summer and New York this fall, I was not only elated, but also dismayed, as my current financial situation would not allow me to attend any of the shows. I suppose that the following interview with founding member and vocalist Richie Birkenhead is somewhat of a consolation prize … and a damned good one, at that. … read more
Brunch for the Ears: The NOVA Chamber Music Series
The NOVA Chamber Music Series plays local and very new music in increasingly close measure with the rest of the program’s adventurous, but also canonical, repertoire. According to Jason Hardink, current artistic director of NOVA, “This makes NOVA a venue unlike any other musical presenter in town. It enriches your experience by putting a Utah composer’s piece beside a piece by Tchaikovsky, because you hear them both side by side.” … read more
The Ghosts of Hardcore Past
In 2004, hardcore blew up. Once that started happening, Blake Foard, member of bands such as Aftermath of a Trainwreck and Skeiff D’Bargg, and longtime show promoter, saw an opportunity to give a little something back to the community through the hardcore scene he loved. “Hardcore, to me, is helping out the people who matter most,” says Foard. That’s when the annual Sub For Santa show was born. … read more
Localized – Top Dead Celebrity, Døne and Despite Despair
Saturday, Nov. 10, you’d better be thankful you live in a land where Zion’s rock n’ roll forefathers worked their asses off to give you the shows you have today. Localized will feature two of Uncle Andy Patterson’s outfits, Top Dead Celebrity and Døne, oozing heavy gravy all over you turkeys at Urban. Openers Despite Despair will prep the big kids’ table with some electric-knife hardcore to kick off a raucous night of rock for you 21-plus music junkies for a small morsel of $5. … read more
Worshiping A Place to Bury Strangers
“We don’t try to be loud at all, we just play at a volume that feels good to us,” says Oliver Ackermann of New York noise-rockers A Place To Bury Strangers. Ackermann supplies the reverb-saturated baritone vocals to the group, who have been labeled as the “loudest band in New York” by various music critics since their formation in 2003. Over time, the label of loudness has become a bit of a nuisance for the band. “We play music, and I don’t think music should really be described.” … read more
